Non-refillable bottle.



No. 647,330 Patented Apr. I0, i900.

H. SEELINGER.

NDN-BEFILLABLE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Oct. 12 1899.)

' (No Model.)

UNITED v STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SEELINGER, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

NON-REFILL ABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 647,330, dated April10, 1900. Application filed October 12, 1899. Serial No. 738,389. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY SEELINGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non RefillableBottles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to non-refillable bottles, the object being toprovide simple and inexpensive means for effectively preventing theintroduction of liquid into a bottle, but permitting the ready dischargeof liquid therefrom.

The invention consists of the combination, with a bottle, of a weightedvalve and a plug of novel construction located in the bottleneck.

A characteristic of the present invention is that I avoid the employmentof springs or other elements of construction which are li able tocorrode or to render the valve devices complicated or cumbersome.

The construction of the invention will be fully described hereinafter inconnection with the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, and its novel features will be defined in the appendedclaim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a bottleconstructed in accordance with my invention and provided with myimproved means for preventing refilling. Fig. 2 is a central sectionalview of a portion of a bottle provided with my improvements and tiltedto illustrate the operation of the weighted valve, and Fig. 3 is a viewin per-v spective of the improved plug detached.

The reference-numeral 1 designates a bottle provided at or adjacent tothe lower end of its neck with an annular flange 2, preferably formedintegral with the bottle-neck and having its upper surface hollowed outor concaved to form a seat 3 for a spherical valve 4. This valve 4 isconnected by a rigid rod or stem 5, which depends through thebottleneck, with a weight 6, which tends to maintain the valve 4 uponits seat when the bottle is in its normal vertical position and alsowhen the bottle is tilted, as shown in Fig. 2.

I preferably construct the valve 4,weight 6, and their connection 5 ofglass in a single piece, thus avoiding the employment of metal or othercorrosive material.

7 designates a plug of cylindrical form adapted to be supported withinthe bottleneck above the flange 2, the inner surface of the neck beingslightly tapered, so that the plug will be supported therein by thefrictional contact therewith of the peripheries of its flanges. Thisplug is also preferably made of glass, and it is provided at both itstop and bottom with an annular horizontal flange, (des ignated by thereference-numerals 8 and 9, respectively.) Each of these flanges isformed with diametrically-opposite slots or recesess 10 and 11, theslots 10 of the upper flange 8 being out of vertical alinement with theslots or openings 11 of the lower flange 9. The result of thisconstruction and disposition of the slots is that it is impossible toraise the valve at from its seat by the introduction of a wire orimplement through the slots or openings 10 of the upper flange, as thewire or implement so introduced would strike the solid imperforate partof the lower flange, the openingsll in the latter not being alined withthose of the upper flange 8. Each of the flanges 8 and 9 is formed withdiametricallyopposite bearing-surfaces 8 and 9', adapted to frictionallyengage the inner surface of the bottle-neck, thus avoiding theemployment of auxiliary means for sustaining the plug in position. Theperipheral edges of the flanges 8 and 9 are roughened or ground toinsure a tight frictional contact between them and the inner surface ofthe bottle neck, and the flanged glass lug 7 is located within thebottle-neck a su cient distance below the upper end thereof to leaveroom for the insertion of the usual cork stopper 12 in the mouth of thebottle.

The operation of the devices when constructed as above described is asfollows:

When the bottle is tilted sufficiently to raise the valve 4 from itsseat, the contents of the bottle may be readily decanted, the liquidfinding its Way through the openings 11 and 10. As soon as the bottle isturned back to rically-opposite ground or roughened peripheralbearing-surfaces which frictionally engage the inner surface of thebottle-neck and peripheral recesses between said bearing-surfaces, therecesses of one flange being out of vertical alinement with those of theother.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in presence of twowitnesses.

HENRY SEELINGER.

Witnesses:

FLORIAN S. THoLL, J. WM. WOLF.

